Berlin news – Page 171
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Wild Bunch takes on sales for new Morgan Spurlock documentary
While continuing brisk sales on Laurent Tirard's Moliere, which has been acquired by Spain 's Golem, Pathe in the UK, Bim in Italy and Australia 's Hopscotch; Wild Bunch has unveiled its line up for the upcoming Berlin festival with several new projects in the pipeline. First is the new ...
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Summit tempts EFM buyers with Lindsay Lohan, Tarsem
Leading LA production, financing and sales outfit Summit Entertainment arrives in Berlin with a slate of new pictures led by Lindsay Lohan thriller I Know Who Killed Me, Berlin Generation 14Plus entry The Fall, Sundance award winner Once, and the previously announced John Woo epic Red Cliff. 360 Pictures' I ...
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NonStop Sales picks up rights for Darling
Just prior to the European Film Market in Berlin, Stockholm-based international distributor, NonStop Sales, has picked up all rights for Darling, Swedish director Johan Kling's feature debut, which won the Nordic competition at Sweden's Göteborg International Film Festival. 'The film will open domestically on Friday (Feb 9) through Svensk Filmindustri,' ...
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Original version of Lost In Beijing to screen at EFM
The production and sales companies behind Berlin competition title Lost In Beijing say they plan to screen the original version of the film at the European Film Market, rather than the modified version that was approved yesterday by China 's censors. French sales outfit Films Distribution issued a statement today ...
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Warner Bros to release The Red Baron in Germany
The German arm of US major Warner Bros has picked up Niki Muellerschoen's $23.3m (Euros 18m) English-language production The Red Baron for release in Germany this autumn. Billed as Germany's most expensive new production in 2006 and one of the most lavish in German history, The Red Baron stars up-and-coming ...
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Berlin to host first conference of Mediterranean Euromed Programme
Producers, directors and institutions from the Mediterranean countries will be meeting with representatives from Eurimages, CNC, the World Cinema Fund and Europa Cinemas, among others, at the first regional conference of the Euromed Audiovisual II Programme being staged during the Berlinale from Feb 10-11. The conference will take stock of ...
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Berlinale needs further expansion, says director
On the eve of this year's Berlinale, festival director Dieter Kosslick has suggested that the festival expand further to meet the growing demand for tickets from the general public in addition to the professional visitors.Speaking to Deutschlandradio Kultur at the weekend, Kosslick said: 'The Berlinale must become bigger because the ...
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Cineclick Asia picks up Berlin competitor Tuya's Marriage
Korean sales agent Cineclick Asia has announced Berlinale competition film Tuya's Marriage as the latest addition to its EFM slate. The company picked up international rights to the Chinese film excluding French-speaking territories, BeNeLux, and Indonesia - which Pretty Pictures acquired at last year's Asian Film Market. Mainland China distribution ...
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Walter Salles and John Waters lined up for Berlinale Talent Campus
Last year's Golden Bear winner Jasmila Zbanic, directors Walter Salles and John Waters, producer Kees Kasander, and actors Sarah Polley and Gael Garcia Bernal are among 120 international experts speaking at the Berlinale Talent Campus which celebrates its fifth anniversary between Feb 10-15. The programme of discussions, lectures, and workshops ...
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Australian drama West strikes Lightning
Los Angeles-based sales and distribution company Lightning Entertainment has boarded the edgy Australian drama West and will introduce the project to buyers in Berlin next week.The film will receive its world premiere in the Generation 14plus section of the festival and explores what happens when two slacker cousins find their ...
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Berlin buzz - updated with reviews
Reviewed films appear in blue - click to go to review.WORLD PREMIERESIN COMPETITIONAngel (Fr-Belg-UK) (CLOSING FILM)Dir: Francois OzonBerlinale regular and arthouse favourite Ozon makes his English-language debut with Angel, starring Romola Garai, Sam Neill and Charlotte Rampling. Celluloid Dreams did brisk business during Cannes for most key territories on the ...
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EFM buzz - the ones to watch
USFocus Features International will commence sales on playwright Martin McDonagh's in-production black comedy In Bruges about hitmen, starring Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson and Ralph Fiennes.Lionsgate brings David Moreau and Xavier Palud's adaptation of the Pang Brothers' cult horror hit The Eye, starring Jessica Alba, to market.Voltage Pictures will begin selling ...
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Berlin buzz - Significant others
PANORAMAAlice's House (Bra)Dir: Chico TeixeiraA winner at last year's Films in Progress at San Sebastian, the film tells of a woman who tries to overcome the hardships of working in a poor neighbourhood of Sao Paulo.Contact: Cinematografica Superfilmes, (55) 11 3031 5522Good Bye, Southern City (Azerb-Rus)Dir: Oleg SafarliyevProduced and written ...
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StudioCanal picks up three new projects, including new Klapisch film
StudioCanal has announced three new films set to debut on its Berlin slate. The first is from director Cedric Klapisch who will re-team with his Auberge Espagnole star Romain Duris. Few details are currently available apart from cast with Juliette Binoche, Fabrice Luchini, Francois Cluzet, Karin Viard and Albert Dupontel ...
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Penny Wolf quits Peace Arch Films
Penny Wolf is leaving her post as managing director of Peace Arch Films in London, effective Mar 16.Wolf will attend the European Film Market in Berlin to meet buyers as a company employee, before going on to pursue new opportunities.Further details including an announcement of Wolf's replacement will follow in ...
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Cinemavault adds three European premieres to Berlin slate
Toronto-based Cinemavault Releasing International has boarded a number of new projects for the European Film Market in Berlin, among them the schizophrenia drama Canvas starring Marcia Gay Harden.Joe Pantoliano and newcomer Devon Gearhart also star in Joseph Greco's film, which will receive its European premiere in Berlin and centres on ...
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Berlinale Cameras to be awarded to Mina, Meszaros and KINO publishers
The Berlinale Camera awards will be presented at this year's festival as part of the Berlinale Special section to Hungary's Marta Meszaros, the Italian documentary filmmaker Gianni Mina, and Dorothea Moritz and Ron Holloway, publishers of KINO German Film. Announcing this year's programme at a press conference on Tuesday morning ...
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Berlin completes Panorama line-up of 50 titles
The Berlinale's Panorama section has now finalised its line-up, with more than half of its 50 titles being world premieres. Seven are debut features. The latest additions include Paul Oremland's feature debut Surveillance set in a world of security cameras and the Canadian actress Sarah Polley's directorial debut Away From ...
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Festivals feel the city heat
The great city film festivals exist of course as important events in their own terms. Without the pressure of a major market and often of competitions, they often succeed in their core mission to public celebration of film and film-makers.'We can just invite what we think are the best films ...